mouse /ˈmaʊs/
 鼠標,老鼠,膽小羞怯的人,鼠標器(vi.)捕鼠,窺探(vt.)探出


 mouse /ˈmaʊs/ 名詞
 鼠,小(白)鼠,圖形追蹤器,小鼠


 mouse
 滑鼠;游標控制器;鼠標器;游標控制鼠;(鼠狀)定位器


 mouse
 滑鼠


 Mouse v. i. [imp. & p. p. Moused p. pr. & vb. n. Mousing ]
 1. To watch for and catch mice.
 2. To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.


 Mouse n.; pl. Mice
 1. Zool. Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae.  The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries.  The American white-footed mouse, or deer mouse (Peromyscus leucopus, formerly Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses.  See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
 2. Naut. (a) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping. (b) Same as 2d Mousing, 2.
 3. A familiar term of endearment.
 4. A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang]
 5. A match used in firing guns or blasting.
 Field mouse, Flying mouse, etc. See under Field, Flying, etc.
 Mouse bird Zool., a coly.
 Mouse deer Zool., a chevrotain, as the kanchil.
 Mouse galago Zool., a very small West American galago (Galago murinus). In color and size it resembles a mouse. It has a bushy tail like that of a squirrel.
 Mouse hawk. Zool. (a) A hawk that devours mice. (b) The hawk owl; -- called also mouse owl.
 Mouse lemur Zool., any one of several species of very small lemurs of the genus Chirogaleus, found in Madagascar.
 Mouse piece Cookery, the piece of beef cut from the part next below the round or from the lower part of the latter; -- called also mouse buttock.


 Mouse, v. t.
 1. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [Obs.] “[Death] mousing the flesh of men.”
 2. Naut. To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2.

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 mouse
      n 1: any of numerous small rodents typically resembling
           diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on
           elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
      2: a hand-operated electronic device that controls the
         coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you
         move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the mouse is a
         ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes
         much more room than a trackball" [syn: computer mouse]
      v 1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around
           spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, creep,
           steal, pussyfoot]
      2: manipulate the mouse of a computer
      [also: mice (pl)]


 Mouse
    Heb. 'akhbar, "swift digger"), properly the dormouse, the
    field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is
    used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat,
    hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean
    animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the
    Bedouins. It is said that no fewer than twenty-three species of
    this group ('akhbar=Arab. ferah) of animals inhabit Palestine.
    God "laid waste" the people of Ashdod by the terrible visitation
    of field-mice, which are like locusts in their destructive
    effects (1 Sam. 6:4, 11, 18). Herodotus, the Greek historian,
    accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings
    19:35) by saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the
    camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields,
    and thus left the Assyrians helpless. (See SENNACHERIB.)